This past year has been a long one for me; it came with many successes and many failures. I would like to break down my circumstances based upon semester that way then I can explain the changes in circumstances that have created the demise of my grade point average.
In my first semester here at U Albany I believed was a great success, out of five classes in three I received an A, another C-, and lastly and E. I would like to make it fully clear that I wish I had dropped my statistics class for which I had received and E. However, I did not and decided if I truly tried within the class that I could at least obtain a passing grade. I would like to make the argument that the class and instructor were not conducive to a learning environment. First, …show more content…
Although, that seems like a small issue it can be quite detrimental to sit in close quarters with barely any room to place my …show more content…
Midway through my first semester I had received a prestigious internship from the Ayco Company, a Goldman Sachs Company. For a student who wishes to go into the field of finance after college I had just received an opportunity of a lifetime. The internship would start at the beginning of second semester and continue until graduation. This would give me over three years of qualifying experience within the working world. Determined to have the best of both world and overcome my failure from my previous semester, I decided to take difficult classes in order to advance my major as far as possible. This included taking the average fifteen credits instead of reducing my workload since I wanted to keep on “track”. Another circumstance that had occurred was my parents had at the same time purchased a house after years of renting. They required me to come home every weekend in order to help them become situated in their new home since they could not afford to do it themselves since their health has been on the decline for a while. Between taking a heavy load of classes and still maintain an internship with no weekend to study or take time to myself, my own mental health was on the decline. Diagnosed as a bi-polar II in high school, I had worked hard to maintain my own mental health. Unfortunately, this past semester I was unable to give myself the care I needed and stretched myself thin inducing a depressive episode. In effort
In my first semester here at U Albany I believed was a great success, out of five classes in three I received an A, another C-, and lastly and E. I would like to make it fully clear that I wish I had dropped my statistics class for which I had received and E. However, I did not and decided if I truly tried within the class that I could at least obtain a passing grade. I would like to make the argument that the class and instructor were not conducive to a learning environment. First, …show more content…
Although, that seems like a small issue it can be quite detrimental to sit in close quarters with barely any room to place my …show more content…
Midway through my first semester I had received a prestigious internship from the Ayco Company, a Goldman Sachs Company. For a student who wishes to go into the field of finance after college I had just received an opportunity of a lifetime. The internship would start at the beginning of second semester and continue until graduation. This would give me over three years of qualifying experience within the working world. Determined to have the best of both world and overcome my failure from my previous semester, I decided to take difficult classes in order to advance my major as far as possible. This included taking the average fifteen credits instead of reducing my workload since I wanted to keep on “track”. Another circumstance that had occurred was my parents had at the same time purchased a house after years of renting. They required me to come home every weekend in order to help them become situated in their new home since they could not afford to do it themselves since their health has been on the decline for a while. Between taking a heavy load of classes and still maintain an internship with no weekend to study or take time to myself, my own mental health was on the decline. Diagnosed as a bi-polar II in high school, I had worked hard to maintain my own mental health. Unfortunately, this past semester I was unable to give myself the care I needed and stretched myself thin inducing a depressive episode. In effort